J. Cole production discography explained

The following list is a discography of production by J. Cole, an American rapper and record producer. It includes a list of songs produced, co-produced and remixed by year, artist, album and title.

Singles produced

Title! scope="col" rowspan="2"
US ^[1]	US R&B ^[2]	US Rap ^[3]	BEL (WA) ^[4]	CAN ^[5]	UK ^[6]		Certifications	Album
Year	Peak chart positions						Certifications	Album
"Lights Please"^[7] (J. Cole)	2009	109	—	—	—	—	—		The Warm Up
"Who Dat" (J. Cole)	2010	93	32	19	—	—	—
"HiiiPoWeR"^[8] (Kendrick Lamar)	2011	—	—	—	—	—	—		Section.80
"Work Out" (J. Cole)		13	10	3	—	32	158	RIAA: 2× Platinum^[9] MC: Gold^[10]	Cole World: The Sideline Story
"Can't Get Enough" (J. Cole featuring Trey Songz)		52	7	5	79	—	169	RIAA: Gold	Cole World: The Sideline Story
"Bad Girls Club"^[11] (Wale featuring J. Cole)		—	—	—	—	—	—		rowspan="1"
"Nobody's Perfect" (J. Cole featuring Missy Elliott)	2012	61	3	4	—	—	—		Cole World: The Sideline Story
"Miss America"^[12] (J. Cole)	2012	120	34	—	—	—	—		Born Sinner
"Power Trip" (J. Cole featuring Miguel)	2013	19	5	4	—	—	46	RIAA: Platinum
"Crooked Smile" (J. Cole featuring TLC)		27	12	9	—	—	114	RIAA: Gold
"Forbidden Fruit" (J. Cole featuring Kendrick Lamar)		—	46	—	—	—	—
"She Knows" (J. Cole featuring Amber Coffman)		90	24	11	—	—	75
"Tribe" (Bas and J. Cole)	2018	—	48	—	—	—	—	BPI: Silver RIAA: Platinum	Milky Way
"RNP" (Cordae featuring Anderson .Paak)	2019	115	—	—	—	84	—	RIAA: Gold MC: Gold	The Lost Boy
"Two Tens" (Cordae featuring Anderson .Paak)	2023	—	—	—	—	74	—
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

2007

J. Cole - The Come Up

01. "Intro”
02. "Simba"
09. "Split You Up"
10. "Plain"
14. "Lil' Ghetto Nigga"
16. "Carolina On My Mind" (featuring Deacon)
17. "Can't Cry"
- Sample Credit: Millie Jackson - "(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right"
18. "Goin' Off"
- Sample Credit: The Controllers - "If Tomorrow Never Comes"
19. "Rags to Riches (At the Beep)"
- Sample Credit: Roy Ayers - "Everybody Loves the Sunshine"

2009

J. Cole - The Warm Up

01. "Intro"
02. "Welcome"
04. "Grown Simba"
06. "Lights Please"
- Sample Credit: Dexter Wansel - "Theme From the Planets"
08. "I Get Up"
09. "World Is Empty"
- Sample Credit: The Supremes - "My World Is Empty Without You"
10. "Dreams" (featuring Brandon Hines)
- Sample Credit: Hank Crawford - "Wildflower"
12. "Dollar and a Dream II"
13. "Water Break" (Interlude)
15. "Get Away"
- Sample Credit: Billy Stewart - "Cross My Heart"
17. "Ladies" (featuring Lee Fields & The Expressions)
- Sample Credit: Lee Fields & The Expressions - "Ladies"
19. "The Badness" (featuring Omen)
20. "Hold It Down"
22. "Losing My Balance" (Bonus Track)
- Sample Credit: Sara Tavares - "Balance"

Leftover

00. "Song for the Ville"
00. "I Got It"
00. "Serenade"
00. "I'm Comin"
00. "Show Me Somethin"

2010

Rain - The Re-Up Mixtape

03. "Come Home to Me"

J. Cole - Friday Night Lights

01. "Intro"
02. "Too Deep for the Intro"
- Sample Credit: Erykah Badu - "Didn't Cha Know?"
03. "Before I'm Gone"
05. "You Got It" (featuring Wale)
- Sample Credit: Janelle Monáe - "Neon Valley Street"
07. "Enchanted" (co-produced with Omen) (featuring Omen)
08. "Blow Up"
- Sample Credit: Focus - "Hocus Pocus"
09. "Higher"
12. "The Autograph"
- Sample Credit: The Class-Set - "Julie"
14. "Cost Me a Lot"
- Sample Credit: Billie Holiday - "My Man"
15. "Premeditated Murder"
16. "Home for the Holidays"
17. "Love Me Not"
- Sample Credit: Stevie Wonder - "My Cherie Amour"
18. "See World" (co-produced with Elite)
- Sample Credit: Earl Klugh - "Living Inside Your Love"
19. "Farewell"
- Sample Credit: OutKast - "So Fresh, So Clean"

Leftover

00. "Unabomber"
00. "Good Game"
00. "On Top of the World" (featuring A.L.)
00. "Purple Rain"
00. "It Won't Be Long"

Young Chris - The Network 2

09. "Still the Hottest" (featuring J. Cole)

DJ Whoo Kid - XXL 10 Freshman for ’10″

07. "Who's World is This" (performed by J. Cole)

Voli - Glass Doors

02. "Sunrise" (featuring Elite) (co-produced with Voli)

Diddy – Dirty Money - Last Train to Paris

Songwriting

12. "Coming Home" (featuring Skylar Grey)

Bun B - Trill OG

Leftover

00. "Bun B for President"

DJ Khaled - Victory

Leftover

00. "We On" (featuring J. Cole)

2011

Fashawn - Higher Learning Vol. 2

04. "Relaxation" (featuring J. Cole and Omen)
08. "Nothing for the Radio" (featuring J. Cole)
18. "Big Dreams"

XV - Zero Heroes

04. "Smallville"
- Sample Credit: Smashing Pumpkins - "To Forgive"

Leftover

00. "Watch Me Go"

Kendrick Lamar - Section.80

16. "HiiiPoWeR"

Fat Trel - April Foolz

19. "Live My Life"

Alex Haldi - The Glorification of Gangster

05. "Killers" (performed by J. Cole)

Voli - In the Meanwhile

18. "Midnight" (Bonus Track)

J. Cole -

01. "Intro"
02. "Dollar and a Dream III" (co-produced with Capsvl of The University)
- Sample Credit: Yoko Shimomura - "Darkness of the Unknown"
04. "Lights Please"
- Sample Credit: Dexter Wansel - "Theme From the Planets"
05. "Interlude"
06. "Sideline Story"
07. "Mr. Nice Watch" (featuring Jay-Z)
08. "Cole World"
10. "Lost Ones"
11. "Nobody's Perfect" (featuring Missy Elliott)
- Sample Credit: Curtis Mayfield - "Think"
13. "Rise and Shine"
- Sample Credit: Greg Dykes and The Synanon Choir - "Arise, Shine"
14. "God's Gift"
- Sample Credit: Milton Nascimento - "Francisco"
15. "Breakdown"
- Sample Credit: Eero Koivistoinen - "Bells"
16. "Work Out"
- Sample Credit: Paula Abdul - "Straight Up"
17. "Who Dat" (Bonus Track) (co-produced with Elite)
- Sample Credit: New Hope - "Godofallofus"
18. "Daddy's Little Girl" (Bonus Track)

Wale - Ambition

Leftover

00. "Bad Girls Club" (featuring J. Cole)

Elite - Awaken

11. "Cycles"

Bali

00. So Cold

2012

360 - Everywhere and Back

09. "What Goes Up"

King Mez - My Everlasting Zeal

06. "The Allure" (featuring Drey Skonie)

Trae, A.B.N. and Renegadez - Welcome 2 the Streets

12. "Roll Call" (featuring J. Cole)

DJ Khaled - Kiss the Ring

05. "They Ready" (featuring J. Cole, Big K.R.I.T. and Kendrick Lamar)
- Sample Credit: Willie Hutch - "That's What I Call Loving You"

Sha Stimuli - The 9.2.5 EP

01. "Two Weeks Notice"

Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city

Leftover

00. "The Jig Is Up (Dump'n)" (co-produced with Canei Finch)

Fabolous - The S.O.U.L. Tape 2

07. "Louis Vuitton" (featuring J. Cole)

Bali - The Hardway

13. "I Dont See Em"

2013

J. Cole - Truly Yours

02. "Crunch Time"
03. "Rise Above"
04. "Tears for ODB"

Funkmaster Flex - Who You Mad At? Me or Yourself?

10. "Maine on Fire" (performed by J. Cole)

J. Cole - Truly Yours 2

01. "Cole Summer"
03. "Chris Tucker" (feat. 2 Chainz) (co-produced by Canei Finch)
04. "Head Bussa"
05. "Cousins" (feat. Bas) (produced with Ron Gilmore)

Talib Kweli - Prisoner of Conscious

15. "It Only Gets Better" (featuring Marsha Ambrosious)

Bas - Quarter Water Raised Me Vol. II

08. "Cousins" (featuring J. Cole)

Leftover

00. "The Season"

J. Cole - Born Sinner

01. "Villuminati"
- Sample Credit: "Juicy" by The Notorious B.I.G.
03. "LAnd of the Snakes"
- Sample Credit: "Da Art of Storytellin' (Pt. 1)" by OutKast
04. "Power Trip" (featuring Miguel)
- Sample Credit: "No More" by Hubert Laws
06. "Trouble"
07. "Runaway"
08. "She Knows" (featuring Amber Coffman)
09. "Rich Niggaz"
11. "Forbidden Fruit" (featuring Kendrick Lamar)
- Sample Credit: "Mystic Brew" by Ronnie Foster
12. "Chaining Day"
14. "Crooked Smile" (featuring TLC) (produced with Elite)
15. "Let Nas Down"
16. "Born Sinner" (featuring James Fauntleroy) (produced with Elite)
17. "Miss America" (Bonus Track)
- Sample Credit: Rue Royale - "Flightline"
18. "New York Times" (featuring 50 Cent and Bas) (Bonus Track)
19. "Is She Gon Pop" (Bonus Track)
20. "Niggaz Know" (Bonus Track)

DJ Khaled - Suffering from Success

11. "Hell's Kitchen" (featuring Bas) (additional production by Canei Finch)

2014

Various artists - Revenge of the Dreamers

01. "Lil' Niggaz" (snippet)
05. "Revenge of the Dreamers"
09. "Bitchez"
10. "May the Bitter Man Win"

Ab-Soul - These Days...

11. "Sapiosexual"

Elijah Blake - Drift EP

03. "Vendetta"

J. Cole - 2014 Forest Hills Drive

01. "Intro" (Additional production by Ron Gilmore)
02. "January 28th" (Additional production by Nick Paradise & Dre Charles for Team Titans)
03. "Wet Dreamz"
06. "Fire Squad" (Additional production by Vinylz)
07. "St Tropez"
08. "G.O.M.D."
09. "No Role Modelz" (produced by Phonix Beats, additional production by J. Cole)
10. "Hello" (co-produced with Pop Wansel and Jproof)
11. "Apparently"
13 "Note to Self" (co-produced with Ron Gilmore)

2015

Voli - The Wall

Leftover

00. "Sound of Love" (featuring J. Cole) (co-produced with Voli)

Trae tha Truth - Tha Truth

08. "Children of Men" (featuring J. Cole and Ink)

Omen - Elephant Eyes

Leftover

00. "Undercover"

Janet Jackson - Unbreakable

09. "No Sleeep" (featuring J. Cole) (Co-produced with Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis and Janet Jackson)

A Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm (25th Anniversary Edition)

17. "Can I Kick It? (J. Cole Remix)"

Dreamville - Revenge of the Dreamers II

01. "Folgers Crystals" (performed by J. Cole) (Co-Produced by Elite)

Pusha T -

05. "M.P.A." (featuring Kanye West, A$AP Rocky and The-Dream) (co-produced by Kanye West and Che Pope)

2016

Spillage Village - Bears Like This Too Much

04. "Voodoo" (performed by EarthGang) (co-produced by Childish Major)
11. "Willow Tree" (performed by J.I.D, JordxnBryant and EarthGang) (produced By Elite and Ron Gilmore, Additional Production by J. Cole)

J. Cole - 4 Your Eyez Only

01. For Whom the Bell Tolls
02. Immortal
03. Deja Vu
04. Ville Mentality
05. She's Mine Pt. 1
06. Change
07. Neighbors
08. Foldin Clothes
09. She's Mine Pt. 2
10. 4 Your Eyez Only

Production credit on all 10 songs on the album

Leftover

00. "Everybody Dies"

2017

JID - The Never Story

05. "D/vision" (feat. EarthGang)
12. "LAUDER"

Logic - Everybody

13. "AfricAryaN" (feat. Neil Degrasse Tyson)

Childish Major - Woo$ah

04. "Supply Luh"

Salomon Faye - King Salomon

03. "Live and Learn" (feat. J. Cole and Eryn Allen Kane)

2018

Cozz - Effected

13. "Zendaya" (feat. J. Cole)

Kill Edward

00. "Tidal Wave" (Just a little reference)

J. Cole - KOD

01. "Intro"
02. "KOD"
03. "Photograph"
04. "The Cut Off" (feat. Kill Edward) (co-produced by BLVK)
05. "ATM"
06 "Motiv8"
08. "BRACKETS"
09. "Once an Addict (Interlude)" (Additional Production (Bassline) by Ron Gilmore)
10. "Friends" (feat. Kill Edward)
11. "Window Pain (Outro)"
12. "1985 (Intro to The Fall Off)"

Mac Miller - Swimming

02. "Hurt Feelings" (Additional Production by Jon Brion and Dev Hynes)

Bas - Milky Way

01. "Icarus" (feat. Ari Lennox) (co-produced by Ron Gilmore and Meez)
02. "Front Desk" (co-produced by Jay Kurzweil and Ron Gilmore)
03. "Tribe" (feat. J. Cole) (co-produced by Childish Major)
04. "Boca Raton" (feat. ASAP Ferg) (produced by Sango, additional production by Cedric Brown and J. Cole)
06. "Purge" (co-produced by Ron Gilmore and Christo)
07. "Fragrance" (feat. Correy C) (produced by Cedric Brown, additional production by Meez, Ron Gilmore, TEC BEATZ and J. Cole)
10. "Sanufa" (Additional Production By Ron Gilmore)

Leftover

00. "Pinball II" (feat. Correy C) (produced with Cedric Brown, and ClickNPress)

Wale - Free Lunch EP

04. "My Boy (Freestyle)" (feat. J. Cole)

Swizz Beatz - Poison

Executive Producer of Album with Swizz Beatz

JID - DiCaprio 2

09. "Skrawberries" (feat. BJ The Chicago Kid) (arrangement by Mac Miller and horns by Masego)

2019

Dreamville - Revenge of the Dreamers III

16. "Middle Child" (produced with T-Minus)

Ari Lennox - Shea Butter Baby

08. "Facetime" (produced with Craig Brockman)

Cordae - The Lost Boy

06. "RNP" (feat. Anderson Paak)

EarthGang - Mirrorland

01. "LaLa Challenge" (produced by Lido and Olu, additional production by J. Cole)

Young Thug - So Much Fun

01. "Mannequin Challenge" (feat. Juice WRLD) (produced by T-Minus and J. Cole)

2020

J. Cole - Lewis Street

01. "The Climb Back"
02. "Lion King on Ice" (co-produced with JetsonMade and T-Minus)

2021

J. Cole - The Off-Season

02. "Amari" (co-produced by Timbaland, Sucuki and T-Minus)
03. "My Life" (feat. 21 Savage and Morray) (co-produced by Jake One & Wu10)

Sample Credit: Styles P & Pharoahe Monch - "The Life"

04. "Applying Pressure"
06 "100 Mil" (feat. Bas) (co-produced by T-Minus)
08. "Let Go My Hand" (feat. Bas and 6LACK (co-produced by DJ Dahi & Wu10)
09. "Interlude" (co-produced by T-Minus and Tommy Parker)
10. "The Climb Back"
11. "Close"

Cozz - Fortunate EP

07. "Fortunate" (co-produced by Cedric Brown, Kurzweil & T-Minus)

Songwriting

"Mafia"

2022

Dreamville -

03. "Lifestyle" (performed by Bas feat. ASAP Ferg)
05. "Coming Down" (performed by Ari Lennox) (co-produced by DZL and Wu10)

Ari Lennox - Age/Sex/Location

01. "POF" (co-produced by DZL and Wu10)

2023

Cordae - The Crossroads Tape

"Two Tens" (feat. Anderson Paak) (co-produced by Dem Jointz)

Summer Walker - Clear 2: Soft Life

01. "To Summer, From Cole" (Audio Hug)" (feat. J. Cole) (co-produced by Wu10)

Mike Will Made It - Michael

"Blood Moon" (feat. Lil Uzi Vert) (co-produced by Mike Will Made It & Myles Harris)

Bas - We Only Talk About Real Shit When We're Fucked Up

15. "Dr. O'blivion" (co-produced by Galimatias)

External links

Official website

Notes and References

[{{BillboardURLbyName|artist=j. cole|chart=Hot 100}} J. Cole Album & Song Chart History: Hot 100 ]. . . June 11, 2012.
[{{BillboardURLbyName|artist=j. cole|chart=R&B/Hip-Hop Songs}} J. Cole Album & Song Chart History: R&B/Hip-Hop Songs ]. . . June 11, 2012.
[{{BillboardURLbyName|artist=j. cole|chart=Rap Airplay}} J. Cole Album & Song Chart History: Rap Songs ]. . . June 11, 2012.
Web site: Discografie J. Cole . ultratop.be . Hung Medien . June 11, 2012.
[{{BillboardURLbyName|artist=j. cole|chart=Billboard Canadian Hot 100}} J. Cole Album & Song Chart History: Billboard Canadian Hot 100 ]. . . June 11, 2012.
Web site: Zywietz . Tobias . Chart Log UK – Weekly Updates Sales 2011 . zobbel.de . Tobias Zywietz . April 28, 2012.
Web site: Lights Please – Single by J. Cole . . . August 1, 2012.
Web site: HiiiPoWer – Single by Kendrick Lamar . . . September 25, 2012.
United States . J. Cole . December 2, 2011.
Canada . J. Cole . June 11, 2012.
Web site: Bad Girls Club (feat. J. Cole) – Single by Wale . . . August 1, 2012.
Web site: Miss America – Single by J. Cole . . . November 13, 2012.